Was distilled in a head that so badly wanted to undo me, It was as if she disinvented all the wars that festered and boiled At the edges of humanity for that sole purpose. But they are the ...

It is easy to assume that the powerful words of this young man from Shropshire captured the true experience of the war. But is that assumption right? Or has our focus on poems like Owen's ...

In April 1865 Whitman was in Brooklyn, visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated. Whitman was devastated. Just as the book ...

Auden writes a lot about the political and social issues of his time, including World War II. Warren cites one particular poem in the collection, “September 1, 1939″ in which Auden writes ...

Freddie’s love of poetry drove him to join up and helped maintain morale during the war. Freddie grew up in a large family and developed a love of poetry, especially poems which told tales of ...